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News -01-16-06 ACLU Opposes Alito Confirmation (ACLU.org) "The American Civil Liberties Union announced today that it will oppose the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the United States Supreme Court." " 'At a time when our president has claimed unprecedented authority to spy on Americans and jail terrorism suspects indefinitely, America needs a Supreme Court justice who will uphold our precious civil liberties,' said ACLU Executive Director Anthony D. Romero. 'Unfortunately, Judge Alito's record shows a willingness to support government actions that abridge individual freedoms.' " "Throughout his career, Judge Alito has promoted an expansive view of executive authority and a limited view of the judicial role in curbing abuses of that authority. Two years ago, Justice O'Connor eloquently expressed what is at stake in these critical times when she wrote: 'A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.' " 01-06 -01-17-06 News and Articles on Judge Samuel Alito (SupremeCourtWatch.org) "Alliance for Justice opposes the nomination of Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court." 01-06 -01-27-06 Sen. Blanche Lincoln: Alito Failed to Set Limits (U.S. Senate) "I strongly believe that our Constitution calls for an independent and co-equal Judicial Branch that provides a check on the government’s power to encroach upon our individual rights. At a time when many Arkansans have expressed concerns over the President’s legal authority to eavesdrop on Americans without court supervision and detain U.S. citizens without judicial review or due process, I cannot support a Supreme Court nominee who has repeatedly failed to uphold reasonable limits of presidential authority at the expense of constitutional liberties." "This issue is especially significant because Judge Alito would replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who recently ruled in a 2004 case on executive authority that 'a state of war is not a blank check for the President when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.' " "While the Legislative and Executive branches of government are, by their very nature, political, we demand our Judicial Branch be above that. When one party controls both of the political branches, the independence of the Judiciary is especially important. Our founders created our country and its government with the memories of tyranny still fresh in their minds. The Judicial branch was given exceptional authority for the specific reason that it provides a critical check on the two political branches of our government." 01-06 -01-31-06 Democrats Voting for Cloture on Debate on Alito (BradBlog.com) "Samuel Alito owes a debt of gratitude to the following Democrats who have allowed his confirmation to proceed to a vote tomorrow, virtually guaranteeing that he'll become the next new Justice of the Supreme Court where he will sit for decades." 01-06 -03-25-06 Impeachment Whispers Get Louder (MSNBC News) "To drive through the mill towns and curling country roads here is to journey into New England's impeachment belt. Three of this state's 10 House members have called for the investigation and possible impeachment of President Bush." "It would be a considerable overstatement to say the fledgling impeachment movement threatens to topple a presidency -- there are just 33 House co-sponsors of a motion by Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) to investigate and perhaps impeach Bush, and a large majority of elected Democrats think it is a bad idea." 03-06 Papers Editorial: "Portgate" and White House Incompetence (MSNBC News) "Everyone’s missing the essential point about 'Portgate.' What’s dubious about the Dubai deal isn’t the possibility of an Arab-owned company running American ports – you can’t automatically profile it into the outer darkness, or rather the outer harbor, but the implacable incompetence of a Bush Administration that no longer seems to get anything right –from Hurricane Katrina to Iraq to Social Security to Homeland Security." 02-06

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